The 2008 National Young Writers' Festival takes place from October 2 - October 6 in Newcastle, NSW. It's our 10th anniversary - put it in your diaries now! >> read more

Check this out from the fantastic kids at Breakdown Press!

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In late 2008 a new edition of the "How To Make Trouble And Influence People" series of books will be published including all three of the original books plus new chapters, interviews, graphics and more!!

For those not familiar with the series so far each book has compiled listings and tales of left wing and anarchist... >> read more

Overland are looking for an novel manuscript to publish as part of a an innovative new publishing and distribution venture. If you've got a finished manuscript up your sleeve and would like the chance to see it in print and in the mailboxes of thousands of magazine subscribers around the country, read on!

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In the 1950s, Overland served as the theoretical journal for the Australasian Book... >> read more

Express Media and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces have launched their 2008 Emerging Writers' Program. For all of you budding visual arts writers, it offers valuable mentorship and publication opportunities. Details below:
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Inaugurated in 2005 to provide new opportunities for emerging visual arts writers, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Express Media's Emerging Writers Program... >> read more

It's time to put the sunscreen away and head indoors as summer of music festivals (sadly) wind up for another year. The Night and Day words festival will be hosted by the Sydney Opera House and NSW State Library from March 6-8.

This is not a live dictionary reading event (hell no!) but a celebration of all things spoken word. Bands Waiting for Guinness and Entropic will help out Sydney's best... >> read more

Submissions are now open for the 2008 National Young Writers' Festival (NYWF). We are seeking proposals from writers of short fiction and critical non-fiction, poets, novelists, journalists, zinesters, bloggers, playwrights, curators, editors, word-loving performance and installation artists, independent publishers, critics, activists, media geeks, comics artists, theory-heads and more ... to... >> read more

As part of the Sustainable Living Festival this weekend, there's going to be an excellent talk on Saturday with Marcus Westbury of 'Not quite Art' fame, Brett Soloman from Get-up , Siriam Reddy from Engineers without Borders and Anna Helme from Engage Media chatting about the Web , ICT and Media's role in Sustainability. Should be a stirring and interesting overview of the current media and web... >> read more

Next Wave is delighted to announce that applications are now open for TEXT CAMP, a mentorship program for emerging arts writers as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.

TEXT CAMP provides an opportunity for emerging writers to work with and learn from established writers, to build networks and contribute to critical and creative discourse around the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and contemporary... >> read more

It all starts on Valentine's Day. If you're lonely, if you're a loser, if you're a lover or a fighter, if you want to impress your stablemate or if you just want to build up your crank-bank, come on down to Blue Velvet Bar for a night of poetry and spoken word. We have:

James Jackson - the wild man of Australian poetry. More piercings than a junkie's forearm, a beard that could kill, and the... >> read more

Electrofringe 2008 is now calling for proposals for this year's festival from artists, media makers, curators, researchers, playful experimenters, enthusiasts, writers and producers.

Electrofringe is a five day festival of electronic arts and culture occurring as part of This Is Not Art in Newcastle Australia. Electrofringe is dedicated to furthering the creative use of technology and... >> read more

Applications for the Australia Council's amazing Write in your Face grant close on the 1st of February. If you're under 30 and have a kick-ass, cutting edge writing project up your sleeve and feel like $8,000 to get it off the ground might make your day, read on ...
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An initiative of the literature board supporting emerging forms of writing practice by young writers.
Write in Your Face is... >> read more